A hundred patients have been included in a study by two doctors from the Torrejón Health Center and who has been the winner of the XV Research Day of the Family and Community Medicine Teaching Unit.

This is the work done by Mabel Montilla and Ana Delgado, two MIR, who was presented at the aforementioned day where resident doctors must present their studies carried out during that time of preparation.

The one carried out by the options of Torrejón is entitled to the use of a visual decalogue associated with an educational intervention on the knowledge of cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics, of Montilla to which the part of Delgado must be added: Knowledge of the Riskglobal cardiovascular in type 2 diabetic patients.

Mabel Montilla explained that patients affected by type 2 diabetes "have more propensity to suffer from cardiovascular problems."Hence, the two residents of the Torrejón have wanted to highlight the importance that the information and awareness have.

The doctors conducted a study with a total of one hundred patients with an average age of sixty -few years. "The objective was that" they had a global vision of the complications that the disease can lead to them and specifically, in reference to cardiovascular ".

To do this, a decalogue was created in which each patient could mark their level of compliance with respect to essential parameters.The decalogue measured the monitoring that each diabetic must carry out in aspects such as diet, physical exercise, compliance with pharmacological treatment, smoking, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, alcohol consumption or albumin levelIn urine.

Together with those patients who were facilitated by the decalogue in which they could mark their level of fulfillCardiovascular, particularly.

In both cases, the results were positive although "you always have to keep in mind that it is essential to work with people who really want to progress in their well -being."In fact, seven patients have promised to quit smoking and others have started a more active life or are more vigilant when eating and the chosen diet.

Montilla understands that the method applied "serves both for family doctors and nurses since the latter are also in charge of monitoring many patients."

For the first time, the Association of Medical Visitors has given an award to the winners of this day.